NextWave began with HP rival Dell's effort to integrate plastic material into packaging. But a driving idea behind the consortium is to have even competitors working together. The company's progress in rolling out new products featuring recycled plastic, she adds, "absolutely exceeds all expectations that we had for them at this stage. Other examples of recycled products from NextWave members include bike company Trek's mountable water bottle cage made from fishing nets recovered off the coast of Chile and carpet tiles from Interface made out of dumped fishing gear.
Of course, these efforts are capturing only a tiny fraction of the waste plastic heading into the world's waters, but the hope is that they can provide a model for others to follow. The tentacled butterfly ray was re-discovered in after disappearing for more than three decades. HP is working to help collect some of that plastic and use it to make a range of products, from ink cartridges to laptops.
HP is part of a consortium of companies working with the nonprofit Lonely Whale to reduce and recycle plastic. A multi-tiered approach The company takes a multi-pronged approach to managing plastic. To date, the program has recycled over million HP ink and toner cartridges.
The HP Planet Partners program continues to demonstrate sustainable impact by scaling across geographies, making it easy to return cartridges and including recycled content in new cartridges. To further this goal, the company has pledged to grow HP Amplify Impact — a first-of-its-kind program that will mobilize our channel ecosystem to help advance sustainability, build diverse and inclusive workforces, and unlock the full potential of communities — to include 50 percent of its Amplify partners by HP Planet Partners recycling process also relies in part on ocean-bound plastics sourced and recovered in Haiti.
HP has been reducing ocean-bound plastic in Haiti since , and these efforts have already diverted approximately 1. Of that, more than , pounds metric tons have been diverted from oceans to be used in Original HP ink cartridges.
The e-plastics are then shipped to Montreal-based reclaimer Lavergne Group, which processes and supplies them to HP. Last year, Jackowski talked with Plastics Recycling Update about how the company is also supporting an ocean plastics supply chain that begins in the Caribbean.
The plastic is then sent to a wash line funded by HP. Flakes are then compounded by Lavergne. The phase-out has already begun, with tonnes of foam having been removed from Personal Systems products and a further 95 tonnes removed from Printing products.
Further changes to packaging formats will be announced in the coming months and years. HP is notably exploring glassine paper to replace the typical protective bag used to house printers and is investing in 3D printing technologies which enable users to reuse all surplus powder. Of this material, pounds was certified as ocean-bound.
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